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Sir Francis Drake revived, ... being a summary and true relation of foure severall voyages made by the said Sir Francis Drake to the West Indies ... 1652-53
RCIN 1142920
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This book contains a collection of pamphlets on the life of the English adventurer Sir Francis Drake. Published in 1652, it contains works that had been printed in the years following Drake’s death and which helped to cement his legacy in English consciousness. The book contains Drake’s nephew and namesake Sir Francis Drake’s (1588-1637) two books Sir Francis Drake Revived (first printed 1626) and The World Encompassed (1628), which covered Drake’s privateering career in the Caribbean and his circumnavigation of the world. The younger Drake wrote these works to extol the life of his uncle during a period of heightened tension with Spain in order to encourage ‘this dull or effeminate age’ to follow the model of the elder Drake and to support calls for further privateering against Spanish ships.
Sir Francis Drake came to be seen as a heroic figure responsible for establishing England on an international stage and ushering in what would become the British Empire. However, his actions in the Caribbean and his involvement in beginning English participation in the transatlantic slave trade have in recent years resulted in the questioning of his legacy.
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The World encompassed / by Sir Francis Drake ...
A Summarie and true discourse of Sir Francis Drakes West Indian voyage ...
A Full relation of another voyage into the West Indies made by Sir Francis Drake ... who set forth from Plymouth on the 28 August 1595.
Sir Francis Drake revived. |b Who is or may be a pattern to stirre up all heroicke and active spirits of these times, to benefit their countrey and eternize their names by like noble attempts. Being a summary and true relation of foure several voyages made by the said Sir Francis Drake to the West-Indies. Viz. His dangerons [sic] adventuring for gold and silver with the gaining thereof. And the surprizing of Nombre de dios by himself and two and fifty men. His encompassing the world. His voyage made with Chistopher Carleill, Martin Frobusher, Francis Knollis, and others. Their taking the townes of Saint Jago, Sancto Domingo, Carthagena and Saint Augustine. His last voyage (in which he dyed) being accompanied with Sir John Hawkins, Sir Thomas Baskerfield, Sir Nicholas Clifford, with others. His manner of buriall. Collected out of the notes of the said Sir Francis Drake; Mastet [sic] Philip Nichols, Master Francis Fletcher, preachers; and the notes of divers other gentlemen (who went in the said voyages) carefully compared together.
